Памяти Каталонии / Эссе

by George Orwell

Документальная повесть «Памяти Каталонии» – впервые на русском языке без сокращений! Гражданская война в Испании – глазами очевидца и участника боевых действий. Война во всей ее неприглядности, со всеми противоречиями, играми и ложью тех, кто пытался на ней нажиться, и отчаянной самоотверженностью тех, кто верил в то, за что сражался… Книга горькая, откровенная и честная. И еще – очень «неудобная» для многих политиков, а потому – прежде выходившая с серьезными купюрами. В сборник также включены эссе Джорджа Оруэлла – откровенные, личные, острые, парадоксальные. До сих пор они вызывают множество споров и дискуссий, настолько злободневны вопросы, которые поднимает в них автор.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1949

About the author

Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.

Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.

Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.

Reviews

[Radim May · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting to read about the real history from someone who was there and fought in trenches...